Re: from AbiWord to AbiSuite [was Re: A new draw on XP refactoring

[Martin Sevior]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Mike Nordell wrote:

> Martin Sevior wrote:
> 
> > 2. 16 bit unsigned char => 32 bit unsigned char to allow 100% unicode
> > compliance.
> 
> I take it you mean UTF-32 compliance here, meaning AbiWord is to only use
> UTF-32 (unicode.org) or UCS-4 (ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000)?
> 
> May I ask exactly _how_ we're supposed to display e.g. UCS-4 on Win32? :-)
> 
> You don't happen to know of a freely available 32-bit TrueType font (less
> than 12 GB in size)? :-)
> 

This is for future enhancements. GTK-2 uses UTF-8 for all glyph 
presentations. We can use a UCS-4 => UTF-8 convertor for GTK-2 and
convertors for whatever is used for windows. There are already
unicode points beyond 2^16. Going to UCS-4 gives us total future
compatitibilty with a very small memory penalty.

Cheers

Martin